The objectives

ALFMED is a French language academy offering foreign students a unique experience of learning French in privileged surroundings and complete cultural immersion.

Quality, innovation and supervision are the Academy’s main objectives

Quality with our young and dynamic teachers, holders of university diplomas FLE (Français Langue Etrangère [French as a Foreign Language]), available modern means, educational coaching and well-adapted premises.

Innovation by the teaching methods used essentially based on practical and recreational activities rather than on lectures; innovation, too, in the different original options offered, as well as in the cultural activities that are organized.

Supervision by taking care of the student the minute he/she arrives, settling in and French immersion offered all through the stay.

ALFMED hires with Languedoc Roussillon region this first step that will be obtained in September 2009 within the Seal Process of Education Centres. ALFMED has already obtained in March 2007, the prestigious FLE Quality Seal issued by the Education and Foreign Matters Ministry.

Educations and Specific Objectives are part of ALFMED’s know-how. Some examples:

Private or collective courses apprehending specific terms and sentences linked to company activities.

The objective of the entire ALFMED team is that students can express themselves correctly in French at the end of their stay – According to their levels, specific objectives will be targeted and a final evaluation assessed.

You will leave ALFMED with the memory of having lived a unique and unforgettable experience! A total French immersion in the South of France. Needs and learning skills are regularly estimated to establish efficient and realistic educations.

The pedagogical team is composed by open-ended contract people who invest in ALFMED projects to share the same passion: the linguistic and cultural opening.
Next to the Manager Florence Delseny Sobra, the Administrative Coordinator Pauline ABELANET, the Head Receptionist Mélinda CHILLET and the whole ALFMED team will make sure to create a real plural community.

The welcoming of more than 250 foreigners per year at the Academy and the education of 200 French people in foreign languages prove it!

The core activity of ALFMED consists in 3 sectors of activities:

- Offering French linguistic and cultural immersion combined with non-paid work experience
- Providing continuous Language training for French companies
- International and European Mobility projects management & counselling for VET schools, High Education training centers and SMEs

As a continuous training center for French companies, ALFMED has a very strong implication in the local economical market, has developed some knowledge in the vocational training and thanks to a large SME network, ALFMED is focused on the labour market needs and mobility opportunities.

ALFMED is very active in the field of Language counselling & certification towards IVT/HE institutes/company Clusters & public agencies for unemployed/social inclusion.